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TECHNICIANRaleigh, North Carolina
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Sean Langston Jr.Staff Writer
During a warm front in Ra-leigh two weeks ago, Timothy Calabrese, junior in aerospace engineering, was puzzled to see a group of bees buzzing by the bushes beside the Atrium.
“There were at least 15 bees fly-ing around by those bushes, and I was just surprised to see them in the winter,” Calabrese said.
The rare sighting brought Ca-labrese to question insect habits, and how spikes in temperature like the warm front affected them two weeks ago in Raleigh.
Luckily, University entomolo-gists were there to help. As it turns out, honeybees’ habits don’t vary tremendously from their human counterparts, tend-
Brittany BynumCorrespondent
U.S. News & World Report ranked N.C. State at 106th among the best colleges in the nation. The University barely rattled the rankings as the largest research university in the state, but some students disregard the publication’s rankings.
Facu lt y re-sources, stu-dent selectivity, spending-per-s t udent a nd student-teacher ratio are among the primary deciding factors of these rankings, according to U.S. News and Report’s College Compass. Some publications rank the university higher, while skeptics question the rankings’ legitimacy.
Timothy Crawford, freshman in engineering, said that he thinks it is important to take into consideration the large availabil-ity of colleges and majors at N.C. State.
“The reason that we could be ranked low is because we have a wide variety of majors to choose from. Schools like UNC-Chapel Hill specialize in specific majors but N.C. State gives more options in education,” Crawford said.
With UNC-Chapel Hill ranked 30th in the na-tion, Wake Forest 27th, and Duke 8th, N.C. State lags behind its Tobacco Road companions as the fourth-best Research Univer-sity in the state, according to U.S. News.
Wit hout pro-gram-specific con-
sideration, some students believe the rankings are skewed.
Student selectivity plays a vital part in ranking, weighing in at 15 percent of the ranking system and placing pressure on undergraduate admissions to accept fewer students, according to the College Compass website.
Mick Kulokowski, assistant di-rector of N.C. State News Services, said retention rates at the university — a large factor in most rankings
— have recently gotten better, with retention rates from the 2008-2009 school year reaching 90.9 percent from 82 percent at one point.
U.S. News measures financial re-sources by average student spending on instruction, research, student services and student expenditures, and weighs these at 10 percent total.
“N.C. State [admission] is based on a holistic review of each appli-cation. As an academic institution, previous academic performance and potential are foremost in the admission decision of every ap-
Taylor O’QuinnStaff Writer
The U.S. government has struggled to find a solution to risk management and liabil-ity issues after the 9/11 attacks, Thomas Lehrman, former direc-tor of the Office of Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism, said at a campus talk Monday afternoon.
Lehrman spoke about risk management and liability prob-lems in the government and pri-vate sector, using his experience as a high-ranking government official, as well as CEO of Alta Investors as testimony.
“I’m trying to expose an area to people and the government that is typically not thought about,” Lehrman said.
Faced with a limited amount of sources, coming up with solu-tions to terrorist and risk man-agement problems has been an ongoing struggle for the United States government, Lehrman said.
“There are four types of global networks: transportation, finan-cial, communication and re-search and development. These networks create new risks since each one is vulnerable to a ter-rorist virus,” Lehrman said.
“In a globalizing world of in-ternet, information can be dif-fused a lot quicker,” Lehrman said. “A lot of work [from the government] is going into de-tecting these viruses.”
When networks are vulner-able, terrorist organizations can
obtain access to crucial government information. Lehrman said this is why the government tries to protect these networks by building a com-plex “castle” of layers for defense.
“Different financial institutions
in the world were money laundering and financing terrorists prior to the 9/11 attacks,” Lehrman said, “This is why we need a bigger budget for defense.”
The private sector also plays a role
in helping defend the nation from terrorism and network vulnerabil-ity. Lehrman said the government
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CEO talks about security, terrorism
GEORGIA HOBBS/TECHNICIANThomas Lehrman, CEO of Alta Investors and former employee of the U.S. State Department, speaks about potentially utilizing the private sector to increase security surrounding container companies handling sensitive government materials. “By imposing additional [insurance] costs, you are creating incentive to innovate safer shipping methods.” Lehrman said. The lecture took place in the 1911 Building Monday.
N.C. State lags behind in national college rankings
Honeybees
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weather on
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RANKINGS OF NORTH CAROLINA’S TOP RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES:
SOURCE: U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
No. 8 - Duke
No. 30 - UNC-CHNo. 27 - Wake Forest
No. 106 - N.C. State
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BELL TOWER BRIEFSCNR sells largest forest holding
The College of Natural Resources will sell Hofmann Forest, a nearly 80,000-acre plot of forestry near the coast of North Carolina, Dean Mary Watzin announced last Wednesday. Watzin said the decision was made as a minority of students have made use of the land recently, with greater use of the closer Hill Forest near Durham. The land will remain a commercial forest with different, unspecified owners. “We are at a competitive disadvantage compared to large commercial operations, which have greater resources to manage in the face of a changing business climate,” Watzin said in an online statement. The forest, which has been in use by the College of Natural Resources since 1936, was the college’s largest plot of land. Watzin said the decision sought to “provide the greatest good for the largest number of CNR students, our faculty and staff, and our professions, over the long term.” Further details regarding the forest will be released over the next few months, according to Watzin’s statement.
College Democrats hold first meeting of semester
The College Democrats held its first meeting of the semester on Monday in order to organize its plans regarding its interactions on campus, volunteer efforts and future meetings. Members said that they hope to engage the student community in a discussion about several issues such as women’s rights. On Feb. 16 the club also plans to partner with the NC Student Power Union and other organizations to attend the Historic Thousands on Jones Street assembly.
College of Engineering to hold career fair next Wednesday
The College of Engineering will hold its career fair on Wednesday, Feb. 6 from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and is free to the public. Previous employers have included Skanska Inc., MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Halliburton and many others. Students of all ages interested in internships, networking, and careers are encouraged to attend.
College of Management to hold career fair next Friday
Poole College of Management will hold its spring career fair from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, Feb. 8 for all students. The career fair will be held at the McKimmon center and will provide a shuttle between Nelson hall and the event during the event. Students are encouraged to review employer opportunities on ePack and become acquainted with several employers at the event next week.
College of Education adviser’s research promotes diversity
Researching the impacts of ethic and racial backgrounds on student relationships, Tara Hudson, an undergraduate academic advisor in the College of Education, uses her position in advising general education students to aid inn her doctoral research. Her research suggests these diverse interactions between students benefit their academic success, inside and outside the classroom. Having been in front of the classroom as well as a part of it, Hudson constantly promotes diversity inside the classrooms.
“N.C. State
[admission]
is based on a
holistic review of
each application.”Thomas Griffin, undergraduate
admissions director
VIEW MORE E L S E W H E R ESport’s columnist Rob McLamb’s story “A prayer for Dean Smith” will be republished in The News & Observer and will be featured on their website.
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Red Clay Saxophone QuartetTuesday, January 29 at 7pmKennedy-McIlwee Studio Theatre
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THROUGH KELSEY’S LENS
Stitching up a winning dress
Sarah Meany, junior in mechanical engineering, sews beads on to fabric for a dress for the University Theater’s production of An Inspector Calls. “This is my first time here,” Meany said, “but I’ll be coming back every week for five weeks.” Meany is helping with costumes as part of her Introduction to Theater
class. An Inspector Calls will run in Titmus Theatre in Thompson Hall Feb. 13-24.
PHOTO BY KELSEY BEAL
CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONSIn Monday’s photo caption of “Ham, gymnastics team defeats Mountaineers” the gymnast dismounting the bars is actually freshman Micaela Woodford, not Kristen Harabedian as the caption stated.
Send all clarifications and corrections to Editor-in-Chief Mark Herring at [email protected]
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POLICE BLOTTERJanuary 226:54 PM | SUSPICIOUS PERSONBostian Hall Officers located non-student sleeping in lobby. Subject was trespassed from NCSU property.
11:03 AM | POLICY VIOLATIONHillsborough StreetStudent was referred to the university for itentionally dmaging another student’s vehicle
January 236:34 PM | FIRE & GAS LEAK ALARMMonteith ERCUnits responded to alarm caused by electrical equipment failure. System reset.
3:00 PM | LARENCYFox Science LabsEmployee reported periodic charts stolen.
11:08 PM | ODOR COMPLAINTDan Allen DriveReport of Natural gas odor. FP responded and determined odor was caused by expulsion of gas from steam plant as part of normal operation. January 244:32 P.M. | ASSIST OTHER AGENCYPNC ArenaRPD advised student had been charged on 1/12/13 with Underage Possession of Alcohol, Providing False Information, and Possession of False SC ID cards. Student was referred to the university.
January 2511:55 A.M. | FIRE ALARMVenture CenterFP responded to alarm caused by cooking.
3:43 A.M. | FIRE ALARMSullivan Shops IIUnits responded to second alarm. FP resonded to address issue.
12:13 P.M. | MEDICAL ASSISTCase Athletic CenterFP responded to employee in need of medical assistance. Transport refused.
January 269:50 P.M. | LARCENYD.H. Hill LibraryA student reported that the laptop he had borrowed from NCSU Libraries had been taken after he left it in unattended in his 7th floor cubicle. Library staff were informed of the theft.
CAMPUS CALENDAR
TodayCRAFTS CENTER - REGISTER FOR SPRING CLASSES The Craft CenterAll Day
CRAFTS CENTER EXHIBITION: “WHO LET THE WOLVES OUT!”The Craft CenterAll Day
CELEBRATING DATA PRIVACY MONTH 2013: WHAT DATA IS SENSITIVE AND HOW DO WE
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PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4Witherspoon Student Cinema7 P.M.
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CRAFTS CENTER EXHIBITION: “WHO LET THE WOLVES OUT!”
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uses an incentive solution to encourage the private sector to become more involved.
Lehrman thinks incor-porating the private sector helps reduce liability for the government and adds more national protection, although a clear solution has not yet been acquired for detecting viruses and reducing the amount of risk involved.
“We’ve had these problems since 1976,” Richard Kearney, professor of political science and public administration, said. “I wonder if there’s any policy learning that’s go-ing on in Washington. Why haven’t we figured it out yet?”
Lehrman, who worked at the State Department from 2004 to 2007, said that at the department, “you feel like you’re flying 35,000 feet above the problem.” Terror-ism is an everyday occurrence analyzed by the department.
“Insurance companies have become more involved in risk management since the Sept. 11 attacks,” Lehrman said.
Lehrman thinks the gov-ernment consistently tries to determine how much insur-ance businesses and the gov-ernment should cover in the event of a security breach or terrorist attack. The Terror-ist Risk Insurance Act of 2002
allowed insurance companies time to develop solutions and products to help insure against acts of terrorism.
Businesses currently use two different models to coun-teract terrorist viruses. The “layered-in-depth” model focuses on strengthening the various defense programs within the government.
Lehrman described the other model as “using a net-work to fight a network,” by cutting links that terrorists may have access to.
“Even though the govern-ment has been working on this issue for decades, there is still no solution,” Lehrman said. “Whenever there was a particular problem, the gov-ernment would always ap-point a coordinator of ‘X’ to solve the problem.”
“The new coordinator ap-pointed to solve a particular problem never had any real authority,” Lehrman said. “It was difficult for this in-dividual to get all of the dif-ferent programs involved in the problem into one room.”
This is why the government relies on the private sector to help support the govern-ments’ defense strategies fi-nancially through insurance.
“We have scarce resources to deal with all of the threats and security problems,” Lehrman said. “How do we become more effective in se-curity with less money?”
ing to embrace warmth.David
Tarpy, as-sociate professor of e nto -mology and honey-bee expert, said what Calabrese saw could have been a honeybee species, given the tem-
perature. Tarpy said when the temperature exceeds 54 degrees, honeybee species of-ten emerge from their hives
a n d r e -sume their search for new f low-ers to pol-linate.
Honey bees are a communal species, l iv ing in
colonies. Solitary bees, like carpenter bees, are less likely
to be seen in winter.
Honeybee species sleep through the winter as a colo-ny in a state that is not tech-nically hibernation, Tarpy said. Most solitary bee spe-cies, however, go through a kind of insect hibernation by hiding in leaf litter or other places, waiting to emerge the next spring.
Tarpy said honeybees are among the most resilient bee
species and can survive in a range of habitats. In the case of quickly changing tempera-tures, as Raleigh has experi-enced this winter, honeybees would likely be the least af-fected.
Tarpy said bees that stu-dents see flying around cam-pus are likely in an area that supports their scavenging preferences. If spotted, they would likely linger “in the natural areas of campus.”
plicant,” Thomas Griffin, undergraduate admissions director, said.
Suzanne Leonard, fresh-man in engineering, said that she thinks program-specific rankings mean more in the long run. “It doesn’t matter what N.C. State is ranked. Engineering is ranked among the top ten in biological and
agriculture engineering.” Outside of U.S. News rank-
ings, N.C. State stands as a highly valued school, noted with high rankings in other publications like Kiplinger, Forbes, and the Princeton Re-view for employment outlook and in-state colleges.
N.C. State is ranked 16th on U.S. News’ “Up-and-Com-ing” list, and despite rank-ings, students and alumni continue to receive accolades in and out of the classroom.
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“There were at
least 15 bees
flying around by
those bushes...”Timothy Calabrese, junior in
aerospace engineering
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Why do you need to read t h i s ? B e -
cause it will be unpleas-ant to realize in the future that things you make are
not yours to share. I am going to try to clear out the hul-labaloo over digi-tal copy-rights.
First: the parties involved. Fore-most are the researchers, people who spend their lives creating original research and further-ing human knowledge. Second are the investors, people who provide the money researchers need.
The researchers don’t generally have all the funds they need to buy state-of-the-art research equipment. They seek publ ic funding f rom government bodies, such as the National Science Foundation and the Na-tional Security Agency, or they join private institu-tions of research like IBM Research or Google.
Third come the middle-men. Once the research is done, the information must become public for the whole world to remain synchronized in human advancement. The pub-lication houses, the con-ferences and the journal
stores are charged with dis-tribution of knowledge.
The fourth player is the rest of us. We all — universities, government agencies and pri-vate industry and individuals — seek knowledge.
The problem lies with the middlemen and their ability to charge for this knowledge. Libraries and individual in-stitutions that require these documents pay an exorbi-tant amount of money to get to this knowledge. These are freakishly huge amounts of money — so huge that N.C. State Libraries charges you, the students, fees to make up for the money paid to these middlemen.
Before the computer age, a scholar did original research, wrote a book or a paper and gave his or her script to the publication house. This was because, naturally, the re-searcher was not able to print and distribute thousands of books. But now, with easy distribution of PDF docu-ments, a physical article or paper is not the only method of circulation.
But online journal data-bases like JSTOR and Safari, as well as institutions like the Association for Computing Machinery and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, insist on having the final copyright to the research — preserving their right to charge.
The right to distribute is generally shared between the author and the institu-tions. Consider the current
revision policy of Institute of Electrical and Electron-ics Engineers. Since Janu-ary 2011, authors have been allowed to distribute “pre-publication” versions of their articles. The right to the final published material lies with the institute. So, why does the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers main-tain this hoarding attitude?
One way to look at these en-tities — the way I adopt — is that operating systems perform the role of comput-ers. They a re sup -posed to maintain the docu-ments and their dis-tribution. They want to act like schedulers of users. People requiring access must approach these entities as a central repository. For soft copies of articles, papers and journals, they could charge a minimal fee — enough to compensate for their main-tenance, not for ownership.
Here’s a curious point to ponder. Consider a college dropout. He needs to read a paper that his own father, a renowned scholar, wrote. Legally, he must go to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers to gain access to that document (in its published format) and not
ask his own father for it at the dinner table.
There are people who real-ize this and work toward a better model of distribution. The USENIX association is a community of engineers, sci-entists and other technology minds who follow an open policy toward the papers that get published in their confer-ences. The authors agree to free and unrestricted public
access to their published ma-teria l. USE-NIX has risen to be the top notch confer-ence for com-puter science research.
The people who paid for the research and the re-searchers themselves
must have the full rights of ownership and not the dis-tributors. For an entity that simply maintains an online database of literature, online journal stores and databases, it charges an unaccountable sum of money.
What I outlined above was the ecosystem of digi-tal knowledge for research. “Digital rights” is a broader term addressing various is-sues ranging from infringe-ment of copyrights to closed behavior of application stores like Apple’s App Store.
The Internet as an alternate model of distribution has been a game changer.
Tony Hankerson Jr., junior in arts application
“N.C. State
Libraries charges
you, the students,
fees to make up
for the money
paid to these
middlemen.”
“...successful
people will
be successful
regardless of
where ... they go
to college.”
The cost of digital copyright: Blame the middleman
It would be redundant to mention that the N.C. State men’s basketball team is ranked No. 19 in The Associated
Press’ top-25 poll. We all have memorized and boasted about our school’s stellar sports ranking, but you would be humbled to learn that our university is only 106th on the 2013 U.S. News & World Report list of best colleges in the nation. To put this in perspective, Duke is ranked eighth and UNC-Chapel Hill 30th. Before you withdraw yourself from this pa-thetic, not-even-top-100 university and begin dressing yourself in any shade of blue, let us analyze the meaning and purpose of these rankings.
Many of the statistics that define a univer-sity are purely related to the high school stu-dents it admits. For example, the N.C. State admissions website features tables showing the GPA, class rank and SAT scores of ac-cepted students. And though many people use this as the basis to judge a university’s difficulty, these statistics tell nothing of stu-dent activity while in college. Success in high school does not necessarily equate to success in college. As the saying goes — which Techni-cian doesn’t endorse — “Cs get degrees, and
a doctor who graduates last in his class is still called ‘doctor.’”
Fewer than half of those who applied to N.C. State in 2012 were admitted. Selectivity is a source of pride for students who are accepted, but it may not always paint an accurate picture of the university’s merit. Mark Gordon, presi-dent of the astutely named Defiance College in Ohio, suggested, “If a school wants to move up in the rankings by appearing more selective, they simply decrease the ac-ceptance rate by encourag-ing more applications from precisely those students they know they will not admit.”
Thus, college statistics could be manufac-tured.
George Leef of Carolina Journal Online wrote, “In preparing its rankings, U.S. News
relies on six factors. Four of those factors are input measurements: financial resources, alumni giving, faculty resources and stu-dent quality. One is an output measure-
ment (student retention and graduation rates) and one is a subjective guess (academic reputation). Not one of the factors purports to measure the thing that academic qual-ity is centrally about, namely learning.”
Why would U.S. News use an admittedly subjective ranking like word-of-mouth reputation in the ranking at all?
Leef also contributed to the Pope Center for Higher Education Pol-icy’s 2004 report, titled “Do College Rank-ings Mean Anything? Why rankings by U.S. News and others are deeply flawed.” He and co-author Michael Lowrey concluded, “More
highly ranked colleges and universities do not necessarily offer a better academic experi-ence than do schools with lower rankings.” Therefore, parents and students should not be fooled by what Leef and Lowrey call “facile and formulaic rankings.”
Furthermore, successful people will be suc-cessful regardless of where — or even if — they go to college. Bill Gates and Mark Zuck-erberg were both Harvard dropouts. Harvard, then, was not essential in their billion-dollar successes. In this way, the name of the uni-versity should not matter as much as the rigor and determination of the individual students.
In contrast, the merit that comes with a uni-versity’s name is an important factor in job placement. Consequently, universities walk a fine line. Rankings are important when it comes to recruiting students but, in many ways, say nothing about the quality of edu-cation the university provides.
If we must look at rankings, let us be defined not by the students we accept, but by the suc-cess of the students we graduate. In the end, college isn’t about how you enter but how you come out.
The relevant irrelevance of college rankings
Naman MuleyStaff Columnist
BY KELSEY BEAL
How important were academic rankings in your decision to come
to N.C. State?{ }IN YOUR WORDS
“Not very actually. I knew it was a good school and liked the atmosphere, so that was a bigger factor.”
Maya Krishnansophomore, business administration
“It was a factor. I was in animal science and I knew State was top knotch in animal science.”
Antrone Burkesenior, religious studies
“A lot: They’re the top engineering school in the state and that’s my major.”
Adam Aycockjunior, biological engineering
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In “Why UNC won’t have State as a rival: From a current UNC-CH student,” the author writes, “On one’s first day [at UNC], he or she is constantly told how he and his other classmates are the best students from the state, ... [which] gives the impression that students at other schools, like State, are not as smart as us.” There are at least two reasons this attitude is unhealthy: (1) Schools are not monolithic. The education a student obtains is most influenced by the degree program(s) they choose, the classes they take, the professors with whom they dig deeper and the extracurricular opportunities they pursue. Smart students give little credence to a university’s overall rank when selecting their school. I know several NC State students who were offered admission at both UNC and Duke, but declined because State was a better fit for them. I hope UNC students realize their education is not inherently better than ours. They, like us, must strategically pursue their passions to get a first-rate education. (2) Thinking oneself superior to another group stems from one’s fears and insecurities. In this case, students build up their school at the expense of another to allay their fear that they are at the “wrong” school. We are better off when we put away pernicious stereotypes, fight the urge to constantly compare and
make the most of our situation.
Alton Russeljunior, industrial engineering
Letter to the Editor
Dear Technician,
After spending four years at N.C. State, I, too, was under the impression that UNC-CH was fraught with vegan, Zune-wielding hipsters. However, I was wrong and so are you. You need not go to Chapel Hill to prove the truth-value of my statement. Go to Mitch’s on Hillsborough Street or listen to WKNC 88.1 and you will understand that N.C. State’s level of counterculture is impossible to top. I urge you to stop making fun of UNC for being the Mecca for the hipster crowd when your hands run so red with plaid.
After attending UNC since graduation, I have learned that most of my/our stereotypes about UNC were wrong. There’s really only one predominate activity taking place at UNC: girls of all ages and sizes vacuum-sealing their leggings to themselves. It’s a blessing and a curse.
Cheers,Josh LucasN.C. State alum
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Balancing acts: music and school
Taylor QuinnStaff Writer
Dav id Wi l l ia ms a nd McLean Lucas said they have dreamed of “making it big” in the music industry since the eighth grade.
Football brought the two freshmen in First Year Col-lege together, and their love for music bonded them. With time and hard work, the two worked to bring a group of five members together to play a type of metalcore music some have compared to the early sound of the popular band Underøath.
The five guys that make up the band idealist: vocalist Nick Surrett, guitarists and vocalists Lucas and Joseph Couillard, drummer Josh Gardner, and bassist Wil-liams. The band allows Wil-liams and Lucas to keep hold of their music aspirations.
“I force myself to get all of
my schoolwork done by Fri-day so that I can focus on the band all weekend,” Williams said.
Lucas said that he has been interested in pursuing music since a young age.
“I listened to so much music for so long,” Lucas said. “Bands like Nirvana and Sunny Day [Real Es-tate] really drew me in and I wanted to pick up a guitar, so I begged my parents and finally got one.”
Williams said that he be-came interested in music in a similar way.
“If I didn’t have that outlet, I would go insane,” Williams said.
Although some think stu-dents would be unsuccess-ful in finding time to move forward with a band while maintaining their grades, these two seem to do it well. Lucas said that the band members refuse to make a
choice between their music and pursuing college degrees.
“I would love for the band to take off, but I know that the odds are against us,” Lucas said. “This can’t last forever.”
Because of that under-standing, both Lucas a n d W i l -l iams have p l a n s i n place to con-tinue doing something other than playing in a band. However, they plan to never give up their musical pursuits. Instead, the two said that they hope to eventually venture into the business side of music, and are planning to apply to transfer into Poole College of Management.
Although Williams and Lucas cite bands such as
Norma Jean, As Cities Burn, The Chariot and Brand New as influences, Williams said the band “likes to think that
[it] is some-thing new.”
Williams and Lucas plan to tour, record and “promote the crap out of [their] lat-est EP and share it with as many peo-ple as [they] can.”
“[We] are still at the bot-tom of the barrel in popular-ity, [but we’d like] to make a career out of it,” Williams said. “Who knows, we can dream right?”
Idealist’s next show is Feb. 15 at the Berkeley Cafe in Raleigh.
SAM O’BRIEN/TECHNICIANLocal metalcore band idealist at their show at Berkeley Cafe in downtown Raleigh on Jan. 18.
SAM O’BRIEN/TECHNICIANMcLean Lucas, freshman in First Year College, plays guitar and sings in the band idealist. “Doing both [school and the band] at the same time has made me grow to appreciate music a lot more because it’s sort of an escape from the every day monotony,” Lucas said.
“I would love for
the band to take
off, but I know
that the odds are
against us.”McLean Lucas,
freshman in First Year College
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FeaturesWill E. BrooksDeputy News Editor
ACC basketball, sweet tea and vinegar-based barbecue leave North Carolinians with little in common. Sean Wil-son, however, thinks he may have found some more com-mon ground, and he’ll bet you a drink on that.
Wilson, founder and direc-tor of Fullsteam Brewery in Durham, released Cackalacky Ginger Pale Ale Sunday in collaboration with Cacka-lacky Inc., a family-run food brand from Chapel Hill, after more than a year of planning and brewing.
Beyond the branding, Wilson said that Cackalacky
compliments the persona of Fullsteam as a Southern brewery poised to expand in celebration of its Carolina roots.
“The one f u n t h i ng about Cack-alacky is that it’s one thing we can al l agree upon,” Wilson said.
The beer is to be on spec ia l at Fullsteam during any Tobacco Road basketball match to embrace North Carolinian unity. Wilson, a Duke graduate, said he hopes
people from around the state and beyond will be able to en-joy the new beer.
Although the beer is meant to make a statement about be-ing a North Carolinian, Wilson said he insists there is an emphasis on “taste, f i rs t a nd foremost.”
A s a Carolina-
inspired beer, sweet potatoes would have seemed a logical route. Instead, Cackalacky and Fullsteam collaborated
on a ginger ale style beer. Page Skelton, a collabora-
tor from Cackalacky, sought to expand from Cackalacky’s famous sweet potato-based Spice Sauce, and Wilson saw this as an opporunity to ex-pand his offerings from his sweet potato-based lager.
Inspired by Blenheim’s Ginger Ale of South Carolina, Wilson said his beer, an alco-holic version of the childhood classic, is meant to incorpo-rate ginger alongside locally cultivated ingredients.
“Their ginger ale was kind of historic, so it was kind of a nod to [our] Southern roots,” Wilson said. “We use tons of local ingredients in our brew-ing process, anything from cornbread to six-row barley to rye to sweet potatoes. The list goes on and on.”
Fullsteam’s new brew isn’t special because it incorpo-rates classical ingredients, but because it makes a new statement about the South.
“Our whole mission is to explore what it means to be a Southern brewery,” Wilson said. Skelton’s collaboration was crucial in the cultivation of the ale, but it took time and thinking on both parts.
“We both have creative minds, so we both worked on this launch together. [Cacka-lacky] gave us a lot of creative reign to run with it.”
As for the release, it was meant to play to the same light-hearted tune ginger ale brings to mind. On the eve of “Kazoo Day,” a arbitrary hol-iday, Wilson simply wanted a fun, silly gathering.
“There’s no particular rea-son [why we chose Kazoo Day] but it just fits,” Wil-son said. “It’s kind of light-
hearted and silly and fun, and that’s what we want our beer to be about.”
Wilson said he plans on brewing the beer year-round and expects to expand be-yond North Carolina and in-troduce the new beer in cans.
Wilson will first only of-fer the beer at the Fullsteam Brewery in Durham, but many of his brews have trav-elled around the state. Wil-son expects Cackalacky Gin-ger Pale Ale to do the same, pending recipe changes
“We want to tweak it a little bit, and we are also waiting
on a big expansion so we can adequately meet the demand we think is going to be out there,” Wilson said.
After three years of brew-ing, Fullsteam now serves six to 10 beers at any given time in several cities. Wilson said that he plans to stay a South-ern brewery, regardless of how far Fullsteam expands beyond North Cackalacky. Wilson’s beers can be found on tap at Porter’s City Tav-ern, and in growlers at Whole Foods Grocery.
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“Our whole
mission is to
explore what
it means to
be a Southern
brewery.”Sean Wilson, founder and
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nation. The next court-storming
that was puzzling to me was when Maryland students expressed their elation af-ter defeating N.C. State on a tip-in rebound by Alex Len. Again, it’s a win you should celebrate, but it wasn’t that great. The ACC is one of the deepest conferences in the country; anyone can lose on any given night (just ask Duke).
Plus, the Wolfpack was ranked No. 14 in The Asso-
ciated Press’ top-25 poll — definitely not court-storming worthy.
Those are o n l y t w o examples of unnecessary expressions of jubilation in a pool of many from this season a lone. So, w i t h t h i s unnecessary court storming running rampant in college basketball, let’s establish some rules for when court storming is appropriate.
First, if your home team
beats the No. 1 AP top-25 team in the nation at home and the home team is ranked
worse than No. 10 in the nation, then it’s definitely OK to take to the court, no question about it. I know it will become stale with the cur-
rent pattern of No. 1 teams falling like flies, but it’s still justified.
Also, if your home team beats a team that is currently undefeated in college basket-
ball after 15 or more games, then the fans can legitimately storm the court.
Those are the only two oc-casions for rushing the court. It’s becoming more wary on the college basketball fan base to the point where it’s no longer a sacred tradition.
With that, I do commend the N.C. State student section for not storming the court af-ter beating Carolina despite many expecting it to do so.
Let’s do everyone a favor and keep the tradition cher-ished.
ing into singles.Singles did not prove to
be any better for the Pack, dropping three straight matches to ranked op-ponents at the 1, 2 and 3 spots in the lineup.
The Rebels made quick work of the Wolfpack. Powell faced off against No. 33 Nik Scholtz, losing 6-2, 6-3. Thomson took on a top-five opponent in Jonas Lutjen, falling 6-1, 6-2. Mudge closed out the match for the Pack, as 95th-ranked William Kallberg topped him.
The Pack’s singles line-up features two freshmen, two sophomores and a junior who has not been a regular in the singles lineup before — a fairly young top-six. Despite the loss, Choboy has been satisfied with their performance so far on a playing field that they are
all still adjusting to.“It’s nice to see our guys
buck le down,” he said. “We’ve got a lot of young first and second year players in the lineup, so it’s new to a lot of these guys. We’re pretty proud of them for being able to do that.”
Choboy seems very op-timistic about the team’s future and believes that the team can compete with the upper echelon of teams in the nation, such as Ole Miss.
“Mississippi is top-15 in the country and that is what we’re building this program to be,” Choboy said. “I think this match was a little bit of an awakening for our guys to understand what they need to do to be put in that com-pany. Our objective is to be one of the best teams in the country.”
N.C. State will return home and prepare for its next match against Northwestern on Fri-day, Feb. 1 at 4:30 p.m. in the J.W. Isenhour Tennis Center.
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all of the passion and inten-sity, it’s about the most you can do without actually being out there on or in the court, field or pool to be a part of the game-day experience.”
Once Smith graduates and
becomes a member of the Wolfpack Club, he plans on toning down his level of cheering so he can take in more of the games.
Fellow Hype Team member Rackl also stands out in the crowd. The aerospace engi-neering major and Carthage native is currently doing a co-op with US Airways in Charlotte. However, his co-
op hasn’t kept him away from the PNC Arena. He has trav-eled back to Raleigh for every home game this season.
“I try to find any excuse I can to come back up to Ra-leigh,” Rackl said. “I love this school as much as I do its sports, and I’ve never felt more at home than I do at State.”
His dedication to the Pack
is clear. You can find him on the sidelines at any game jumping and screaming in his red Pack Pride jacket.
“I love my school and I do my best to show my support,” Rackl said. “That’s what I think being a State fan and student is all about.”
STUDENTScontinued from page 8
TENNIScontinued from page 8
STORMINGcontinued from page 8
“Let’s do
everyone a
favor and keep
the tradition
cherished”
INSIDE• Page 7: Continued student perspectives
on the student section at PNC Arena.
COUNTDOWN• 4 days until men’s basketball takes on conference
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Jeniece JamisonSports Editor
I went to a high school basket-ball game last night between the Wake Forest-Rolesville
Cougars and the Heritage Hus-kies. At the conclusion of the game, the Wake Forest-Roles-ville student section took part in a tradition that was typically regarded as a solely collegiate athletics related: They stormed the court.
That was the first time I’ve ever seen a storming of the court at a high school game. After speaking with the Cougars’ head coach, he explained the recent history of the rivalry between the schools and why it means so much to them.
After witnessing that event and talking to the coach, it sup-planted my attitude towards the storming the court. It’s a played-out gesture that is sadly no longer used sparingly.
The fact that it’s even gotten down to the high school level is mind-boggling. Even the coach said the students are just trying to be like the students at N.C. State and North Carolina.
Two of the most unnecessary court-storming events happened this season. Following LaSalle’s one-point win against Butler, the students took to the court to celebrate. Yes, it was a tightly contested game, but the Bulldogs had already lost two other games to that point and were nowhere near being the No. 1 team in the
Daniel NealStaff Writer
Dan Shulman, a commentator for ESPN, remarked on the N.C. State crowd during the first half of the Wolfpack’s win over North Carolina on Saturday.
“If anyone would’ve blown a whistle, we wouldn’t have heard it,” Shulman said. “The noise is deafening in here.”
The hype surrounding the bas-ketball team has given State fans a chance to be acknowledged and respected. In the past, most games were televised on Ray-com Sports or available through ESPN3. This year, ESPN has giv-en State deserved attention and is broadcasting most of its games on its family of channels.
Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m., the gates of the PNC Arena park-ing lot opened and students sprinted from Trinity Road for a prime seat. After a 3½-hour wait outside and a 1½-hour wait inside the arena, the fans finally got their chance to show how great they are.
Throughout the game, a noise meter, originally from Reynolds Coliseum, consistently hit its highest level and media outlets recognized the noise. CBS bas-ketball insider Jeff Goodman tweeted that the atmosphere at the PNC Arena was “top-10 for sure.”
The top-10 atmosphere was created by the collective work of every Wolfpack fan in attendance that game, but the Hype Team has been one of the driving factors in creating a great environment all season. The Hype Team’s mission at
the beginning of the year included making the atmosphere at basket-ball games better and unifying
the entire crowd through cheers.
Two members from the Hype Team have stood out from the rest of the crowd. Se-nior Rickey Smith and sophomore AJ Rackl have each contr ibuted to leading the stu-dent section all
season.Smith, a food science major, trans-
ferred to N.C. State in the fall of
2010. The Lillington native can be seen at almost every sporting event on campus. He doesn’t limit himself to only the big events.
“It’s a part of the campus life that is really overlooked when it comes to the big picture,” Smith said. “It’s really great being able to see all of these different sports in person, as well as a great chance to meet and hang out with fellow students.”
A big reason why he stands out is his relentless cheering.
“Being there at the game is one thing, but being in the student sec-tion is another,” Smith said. “With
Nolan EvansDeputy Sports Editor
The No. 41-ranked N.C. State men’s tennis team split matches this weekend in the 2013 ITA Kick Off in Oxford, Miss., mov-ing to 3-1 on the young season.
In the opening round of the event, the Wolfpack took a 4-2 victory on Friday against the 36th-ranked Louisville Cardi-nals, taking the doubles point and grabbing three singles wins to capture the victory.
The Pack’s top doubles team, comprised of senior Dave Thom-son and junior Sean Weber, gave the team a head start with an 8-5 win over the No. 31 doubles team in the nation, Albert Wagner and Alex Gor-net.
Louisville fou g ht b ac k against sopho-more Robbie M u d g e a n d freshman Thomas Weigel as State dropped the match, 8-4.
With the doubles point tied at one apiece, sophomores Beck Bond and Austin Powell gave N.C. State an early 1-0 match lead by sealing the doubles point, taking down their opponents by an 8-5 count.
The Cardinals took the lead in singles after downing the Wolf-pack’s No. 1 and No. 2 players, Powell and Thomson. Pow-ell dropped a 6-4, 6-2 bout to
82nd-ranked Sebastian Stiefelmeyer. Thomson fell in a three-set battle, 6-3, 5-7, 6-1, giving Louisville a 2-1 match lead.
State bounced back by taking three consecutive matches at courts 3, 4 and 5 to claim victory over the Cardinals. Mudge took his match 6-3, 3-6, 6-2, Weigel zeroed in after the first match to take a 4-6, 6-0, 6-2 win and Weber won in straight sets, 7-5, 6-2.
“[Louisville]’s been a pretty solid team for a long time, so we felt re-ally good about going in there and playing those guys,” head coach Jon Choboy said. “I think our guys showed a lot of toughness and a lot of courage.”
With the win, the Pack moved to the championship match against No. 11 Mississippi, who took down the No. 44 Columbia Lions to advance against NCSU.
Unfortunately for the Wolfpack, Sat-
urday was a different story as the team was swept, 4-0, by the Rebels.
In doubles, the Wolfpack nett-ers dropped their first two matches on courts No. 1 and 3, sealing the doubles point for Ole Miss.
Weber and Thomson were the first off the court following an 8-4 loss. Mudge and Weigel were not far behind them, losing 8-3 to give the Rebels an early 1-0 advantage head-
Men’s basketball moves down to No. 19The Wolfpack dropped one spot this week in The Associated Press’ men’s basketball top-25 poll, from No. 18 to No. 19. It went 1-1 this week, dropping a two-point game to Wake Forest in Winston-Salem and defeating North Carolina at home. Michigan replaced Duke as the national No. 1.
SOURCE: ESPN
Glennon to participate in all-star eventFormer N.C. State football quarterback Mike Glennon will participate in the 2013 Quicken Loans All-Star Football Challenge Feb. 2. Glennon will compete against fellow ACC quarterback EJ Manuel of Florida State, Ryan Nassib of Syracuse and Jordan Rodgers from Vanderbilt in the Quicken Loans QB Accuracy challenge.
SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
Pack optimistic in young season MEN’S TENNIS
CHRIS RUPERT/ARCHIVEJunior Sean Weber serves the ball during the doubles final of the Atlantic Tire and Service Triangle Tennis Challenge Nov. 19, in the Isenhour Tennis Center. The Challenge was a charity tournament with the proceeds benefiting ovarian cancer awareness.TENNIS continued page 7
Student section makes a statement
STUDENTS continued page 7 STORMING continued page 7
Tradition
no longer
sacred
RYAN PARRY/TECHNICIANPhiroze Divecha, a senior in mechanical engineering, is raised above the student section by his friends during the first half of the North Carolina game Saturday. The Wolfpack defeated the Tar Heels 91-83 for the first time in six years at the PNC Arena. “We got in trouble by the security staff for it,” said Divecha.
PACKTWEETS#
N.C. State men’s bball @PackMensBball
On the way to Charlottesville for tomorrow’s game with UVa. #gopack
N.C. State baseball @NCStateBaseball#Pack9 cracks the top-10 in
another poll, coming in at No. 9 according to the NCBWA http://www.sportswriters.net/ncbwa/news/2013/poll130128.html …
Russell Wilson @DangeRussWilson Amazing experience playing in my
1st Pro Bowl as a Rookie. So blessed to be around QBs like @drewbrees and Manning’s I pray #ProBowl stays!
Mark Gottfried @Mark_Gottfried
Wolfpack fans help us #beatcancer go to http://www.espn.com/infiniti & vote everyday in the #ICCC we are behind need to make a comeback
Jordan Vandenberg @JPV14Wolfpack
‘if we dont come together, as a team, we will die, as individuals’ - al pacino #anygivensunday
TJ Warren @T24Warren
PNC, Thank You. #pack
ATHLETIC SCHEDULE
TodayMEN’S BASKETBALL V. VIRGINIACharlottesville, Va., 7 p.m.
ThursdayWOMEN’S TENNIS V. EAST CAROLINAJ.W. Isenhour Tennis Center, 4 p.m.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL V. BOSTON COLLEGEChestnut Hill, Mass., 7 p.m.
FridayMEN’S TENNIS V. NORTHWESTERNJ.W. Isenhour Tennis Center, 4:30 p.m.
WRESTLING V. NORTH CAROLINAChapel Hill, N.C., 7 p.m.
TRACK AT HILTON GARDEN INVITATIONALWinston-Salem, N.C., All Day
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“I think our guys
showed a lot of
toughness and a
lot of courage.”Jon Choboy
men’s tennis head coach
MEN’S BASKETBALL COMMENTARY
“Being there at the
game is one thing,
but being in the
student section
is another,”Rickey Smith,
senior in food science